Kiln-furnace.



rrno KILN- -FURNACE.

SPEGIFIOATION forming part of Letters Patent'No. 662,633, dated November 27, 1900.

Application filed July 10, 1900. ierial N0- 23,O9 l (No model.)

To (ZZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS VINEZ, acitizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in. the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Iin'prove a side elevation showing the inner side of the furnace and a portion of the kiln-wall. Fig. 4 is a vertical section of the kiln-wall through the furnace.

The present invention has relation to kilnfurnacesg-and it consists in the novel arrangement hereinafter described.

The object of the present invention is to so arch the furnace that the brick used in the construction of the arch will be removed from the intense heat and at the same time so arranged that they will support the kiln-wall proper.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts 'in all the figures of the drawings.

In the accompanying drawings,1 represents the kiln-Wall, which is constructed in the ordinary manner, reference being had to my improved construction of the furnace and the wall relating thereto. I

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated a portion of the furnace-wall, also a portion of the crown, and have illustrated said parts designed for a circular kiln; but it will be understood that no peculiar construction of the kiln-wall proper is required to carry out the object and purpose of the present invention.

The sides of the furnace-opening are located as shown, said sides consisting of the straightfaced walls 2, which extend upward to a point at the top of the pocket-wall 3.

Directly opposite the furnace, upon the inside of the kiln-wall, is located the pocketwall 3, which in this instance is shown angular; but it will be understood that the pocketwall may be differently constructed without departing from the nature of my invention.

The arch 4 is constructed in the outer portion of the kiln-wall, as illustrated in the drawings, and from the top of the arch be tween the jamb-walls is continued the inner portion of the kiln-wall, which consists of the inclined structure 6, said inclined structure being drawn toward the kiln-chamber and is so constructed for the purpose of causing the heat arising from the furnace to be shunted upward and toward the vertical center of the kiln or, in other words, toward the opposite wall of the kiln.

It will be understood that by my peculiar arrangement no arch is needed or required for the inner portion of the kiln-wall, but the straight inclined wall 6 takes the place of the ordinary arch, thereby setting the arch. proper away from the intense heat and at the same time allowing a free and unobstructed passage for the heat upward,from whence it is shunted downward by the crown 7.

For the purpose of better bracing the kilnwall proper and at the same time allowing the flame and heat to be better distributed throughout the kiln the jamb-walls 9 are flared, as illustrated in the drawings, 0r,,in other words, the walls are tapered toward each other as they approach the inclined wall or back 6.

It will be understood that by providing the increased exit above the pocket-walls 3 at their sides and just above said pocket-walls a better distribution of the heat will be brought about and at the same time the kilnwall proper will be better braced.

It will be understood that the angularity of the flare given to the jamb-walls 9 maybe varied without departing from the nature of my invention, inasmuch as the flare or taper may be varied, reference being had to the well located directly over the arch and ex- In testimony that I claim the above I have tended upward and inward in an inclined dihereunto subscribed mynzune in the presence [0 rection from the arch, jamb-walls located of two witnesses. upon either side of the inclined back, said 5 ja-mb-walls diverging from the inclined back,

parallel Walls and a pocket-Wall located below the inclined back, substantially as and for the purpose specified. V

LOUIS VINEZ.

Witnesses:

W. S. EARSEMAN, J. C. SOMAMAKER. 

